Trey Hendrickson Update

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(Yesterday, 12:28 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I love it when someone who makes a fraction of an NFL player's salary goes on some rant about how he could be making 28M a year to play a game, when they themselves don't have the talent to perform as one of the best in the world at that job. Said fan would gladly take less to play a game. Happily being underpaid relative to their peers. 

Yeah, right. 

When you have the talent to do a job and you're one of the best at that job, you want to be compensated to your talent, relative to your peers. 

Full.Stop.

I see both ends of it.

There is a TON of work and sacrifices that are made to be a professional athlete.  The "playing a game" argument never sits well with me.  When there's millions of dollars involved, it's not a game anymore. It's serious business.   Not to mention that these guys are doing damage to their bodies that will negatively affect their quality of life going forward.  

I also understand the desire to earn generational wealth so your great grandchildren will never want for anything.  That said, I also understand how people in lower to middle class income families can be offended by a guy who's already made tens of millions of dollars playing the "gotta take care of my family" card.  It comes off as time deaf when the party saying that is talking about generations yet to be born while the one listening is worried about their rent or mortgage this month.

I like Trey, feel he's a great player, and understand his desire to be paid what he's worth.   But on the other hand, he's on his third contract.  If he feels he's underpaid, it's because he and his representatives did a poor job of negotiating.  I can only be so sympathetic to someone being asked to lay in the bed they made.